catheter {MetaAnalyser}

Meta-analysis of antibacterial catheter coating

Description

Data on the effectiveness of silver sulfadiazine coating on venous catheters for preventing bacterial colonisation of the catheter and bloodstream infection. A modified version of the data provided by the rmeta package, excluding four small or uninformative studies.

Usage

data("catheter")

Format

A data frame with 11 observations on the following 3 variables.

name

Study name

est

Log odds ratio of bacteria colonisation (treatment compared to control)

se

Corresponding standard error

Details

The Appavi, Pemberton, Logghe and Bach (a) studies are excluded. The data here are produced from the source numerators and denominators using the meta.MH method in rmeta.

Source

Veenstra D et al (1998) "Efficacy of Antiseptic Impregnated Central Venous Catheters in Preventing Nosocomial Infections: A Meta-analysis" JAMA 281:261-267

References

The rmeta package (Lumley, 2012).

Examples

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MetaAnalyser(catheter)

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